During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

Tank columns in the desert plains may disrupt the fragile stability that exists.

The panzers that had achieved the penetration divided into two columns, one trying to reach Champs from the rear, and were destroyed in detail by two companies of the 1st Battalion 502nd PIR under Lt. Col. Patrick F. Cassidy and four tank destroyers of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

Advances in technology saw advent of the tank, with the creation of the Royal Tank Regiment, and advances in aircraft design, with the creation of the Royal Flying Corps, which were to be decisive in future battles.

In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.

Three of them were assigned to Tank Detachment 100 as part of the invasion and it was intended to use them for pulling ashore unpowered assault barges and towing vehicles across the beaches.

By mid 1942 these corps were being grouped together into Tank Armies whose strength by the end of the war could be up to 700 tanks and 50, 000 men.

During 2010, the armoured and mechanized infantry battalions were restructured as Combined Arms Battalions ; as from 1 January 2011, each had a Staff Company, a Logistics Company, 2 Tank Companies and 2 Mechanized Infantry Companies equipped with infantry fighting vehicles ..

The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to the one used at Kennedy Space Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and there mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank ( VMGVT-ET ), which in turn was attached to a set of inert Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRB ) to form a complete shuttle launch stack, and marked the first time in the program's history that all Space Shuttle elements, an Orbiter, an External Tank ( ET ), and two SRBs, were mated together.

Despite armored support from the 10th Tank Battalion, daily advances were less than.

Later large railway containers, such as the British Railway Milk Tank Wagon were introduced later, enabling the transport of larger quantities of milk, and over longer distances.

That same day it contacted, and was given as attachment the 44th Royal Tank Regiment elements of which were advancing in the VIII Corps sector.

* A43 Infantry Tank " Black Prince " a British experimental AFV design, essentially a " super Churchill " of which six prototypes were built very late in World War II.

Their landings were to be supported by the tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion ; two companies swimming ashore in amphibious DD tanks and the remaining company landing directly onto the beach from assault craft.

Because sea conditions were too rough, the decision was made for the 116th RCT to carry the DD tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion all the way to the beach.

In fact the implementation was so widespread that the Red Army's armies were known as Combined Arms ( Общевойсковая ) armies to distinguish them from the Tank Army.

Between 1942 and 1945, the marsh was used by the Royal Tank Regiment ; an armoured fighting vehicle gunnery range was established and new banks were constructed for firing practice, with targets set at intervals.

By the late 1980s it consisted of a regimental headquarters in command of three Motorised Rifle Battalions, equipped with either the BMP or BTR series of armoured personnel carriers, and one Tank Battalion, typically consisting of T-64, T-72 or T-80 tanks, although older models were present in units outside the European Theater of Operations.

After the war, the Tank and Mechanized Corps were re-rated as divisions.

During the reforms of 1956-58, most of the corps were again disbanded to create the new Combined Arms and Tank Armies.

Some of these films, such as Vice Squad ( 1953 ) proved excellent in their own right, while others, such as 1958's Tank Battalion, were critical and commercial failures.

When Soviet tank designers were preparing a successor to the BT Fast Tank series, they combined its excellent mobility with thick, sloped armour and the unprecedented firepower of a 76 mm high-velocity gun.

* Turkey – According to one source, two were sold to Turkey in 1935, along with 60 T-26, five T-27 tankettes, and about 60 BA-6 armoured cars to form the 1st Tank Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division at Luleburgaz.

The choice was made to use them up in combat instead and the surviving vehicles were collected together into the 67th and 68th Tank Regiments of the 34th Tank Division, which served with the 8th Mechanized Corps in the Kiev Special Military District.

During Operation Barbarossa, ninety percent of the T-35s lost by the 67th and 68th Tank Regiments were lost not to enemy action but through either mechanical failure or because they were abandoned and destroyed by their crews.

* T26E2, eventually standardized for use as the Heavy Tank M45 — a close support vehicle with a 105 mm howitzer ( 74 rounds ).

The four tanks and remaining infantry formed a small force that repelled several German attempts to attack their position, and were eventually relieved at 10: 30 by a tank squadron from the 44th Royal Tank Regiment and elements of the rest of the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment.

The T7 design, which was initially seen as a replacement, evolved into a mediocre Medium Tank M7 and was eventually rejected in March 1943, which prompted the Ordnance Committee to issue a specification for a new light tank, with the same powertrain as the M5A1 but armed with a 75 mm gun.

The Tank destroyer command eventually numbered over 100, 000 men and 80 battalions equipped with 36 tank destroyers or towed anti-tank guns each.

Harlequin employees sometimes referred to themselves as " The ' Late Binding ' company " and the company eventually evolved into a Think Tank for advanced technologies.

In storyline, Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial artist Tank Abbott became an avid fan of 3 Count, and he began protecting them during their performances, attacking anyone who disrupted them, eventually acting as their talent manager and occasional inserting himself as a back-up dancer.

However, the commercial failure of the Tank Girl film and the crossing over of the alternative scene into the mainstream ( around the time of Britpop, a movement it had helped to champion ) saw the magazine eventually fold at the end of 1995.

* Brainiac: Science Abuse ( 2003 ) – The safe was eventually cracked by a high-explosive round fired using a Challenger 2 Tank.

Recommended to Perón by Kurt Tank, Richter convinced Perón that he could produce controlled nuclear fusion using cheap materials in a process that could supply cheap energy in enormous quantities, a program that eventually became known as the Huemul Project.

Assessing the success of the German Blitzkrieg strategy, operational methods and tactics, it was concluded that the Red Army should return to the use of operational methods developed before the war, and indeed the Tank Armies were eventually created.

The attack plan for 5th Guards Tank Army had major shortcomings, in that it neglected a proper artillery preparation, ordered the Soviet tankers to use high speed to overcome the shortcomings in armour and weaponry of their tanks, and put the main attack into a sector in which an anti-tank ditch dug by Soviet troops protected the German forces to some degree.

When Clawdia and Grill attacked and destroyed his house with Tank ' n ' Cheese, Shrimp Daddy protected his master.

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

At first light on 11 July, the Australian 2 / 24th Battalion supported by tanks from 44th Royal Tank Regiment attacked the western end of Tel el Eisa hill ( Point 24 ).

In the early hours of 17 July, the Australian 24th Brigade — supported by 44th Royal Tank Regiment (" RTR ") and strong fighter cover from the air — assaulted Miteirya ridge ( known as " Ruin ridge " to the Australians ).

In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles ' feature film New Jack City, gang leader Odessa ( alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow ) in Ricochet ( 1991 ), gang leader King James in Trespass ( 1992 ), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game ( 1994 ), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic ( 1995 ), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl ( 1995 ).

Principal US military systems currently purchased by the Kuwait Defence Forces are Patriot missile system, F-18 Hornet fighters, and the M1A2 Main Battle Tank.

* Dominion Tank Police ( 1988 ) by Takaaki Ishiyama and Kôichi Mashimo

* New Dominion Tank Police ( 1990 ) by Noboru Furuse and Junichi Sakai

In 2003, he produced Crazy Beat and Gene by Gene from the Blur album Think Tank, and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years.

However, this approach to the study and assessment of think tanks has been criticised by think tank researchers such as Enrique Mendizabal and Goran Buldioski, Director of the Think Tank Fund, supported by the Open Society Institute.

image: Shravanabelagola. jpg | This photograph of Chandragiri Hill and Tank at Śravaṇa Beḷgoḷa, taken in the 1890s by an unknown photographer, is from the Curzon Collection's " Souvenir of Mysore " Album

* " Aurora ", a song by Veruca Salt from Tank Girl

Shortly after his arrival at Champlieu, the British launched what was then the largest armoured attack of the war at the Battle of Cambrai, and at the conclusion of his tour, on December 1, Patton went to Albert, from Cambrai, to be briefed on the recent attack by the chief of staff of the British Tank Corps, Colonel J. F. C. Fuller.

Think Tank, released in May 2003, was filled with atmospheric, brooding electronic sounds, featuring simpler guitar lines played by Albarn, and largely relying on other instruments to replace Coxon.

The guitarist's absence also meant that Think Tank was almost entirely written by Albarn.

According to a French documentary TV film " Tank on the Moon " by Jean Afanassieff, the Lunokhod design returned to limelight 15 years later due to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster on April 26, 1986.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

Philanthropic health services are provided by Hope Clinic Lukuli situated between Tank Hill, Makindye and Konge.

Their tank support was to be provided by the 741st Tank Battalion, again two companies swimming ashore and the third landed conventionally.

The RAC was created on 4 April 1939, just before World War II started, by combining the cavalry wing ( cavalry units that had mechanised ) with the Royal Tank Corps ( which was thereupon renamed the Royal Tank Regiment within the new corps ).